Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climates and social orthodoxy. Along the way he canoed through Belgium and France, booked passage to and across America, and finally famously settled in Samoa in the South Seas. The walking trip that Stevenson describes in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) was taken when the nascent author was still in his twenties and pining for a lost love. Accompanied by Modestine, the eponymous donkey he hired to carry his camping gear, the journey proved both challenging and charming. The book is infused with all of the qualities that make Stevenson the most popular of writers: humour and humanity, poetry and perspicacity, ebullience and intelligence. Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language, with authors hailing from both sides of the Atlantic. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface to create a series that every lover of fine travel literature will want to collect and keep.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781909612624 |
| ISBN 10 | 1909612626 |
| Title | Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes |
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Series | Stanfords Travel Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-02-19 |
| Number of pages | 97 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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